Savart, Champagne La Moufle, 2021 123025CONCOSA plum—combined with a floral lift

plum—combined with a floral lift of violet and subtle hints of tobacco and cedar

and a set of wines that taste like the chalky ground they came from

The 2022 shows blackberry

located on a cool plateau in the Médoc and owned by the Delon family (also known for Leoville Las Cases and Château Nenin)

It is the most direct introduction to the range

Savart, Champagne La Moufle, 2021 123025CONCOSA plum—combined with a floral liftFrederic Savart traded a semi pro football career for his family's vines in Ecueil, and in the twenty years since he's become one of the Montagne de Reims' most quietly serious growers: low dosage, low intervention, wines that taste like they came from a place rather than a blending tank. La Moufle is one of his vintage dated bottlings, and 2021 was a genuinely brutal year in Champagne cold, wet, mildew plagued, with yields that barely justified the